Prenatal stress and externalizing behaviors in childhood and adolescence: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

I Tung, AE Hipwell, P Grosse, L Battaglia… - Psychological …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Accumulating evidence suggests that psychological distress during pregnancy is linked to
offspring risk for externalizing outcomes (eg, reactive/aggressive behaviors, hyperactivity …

Paternal adverse childhood experiences: associations with infant DNA methylation

SM Merrill, SR Moore, N Gladish… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), or cumulative childhood stress exposures, such as
abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction, predict later health problems in both the …

Thinking across generations: Unique contributions of maternal early life and prenatal stress to infant physiology

SAO Gray, CW Jones, KP Theall, E Glackin… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a parasympathetic-mediated biomarker of
self-regulation linked to lifespan mental and physical health outcomes. Intergenerational …

Evolutionary significance of the neuroendocrine stress axis on vertebrate immunity and the influence of the microbiome on early-life stress regulation and health …

VA Ortega, EM Mercer, GF Giesbrecht… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Stress is broadly defined as the non-specific biological response to changes in homeostatic
demands and is mediated by the evolutionarily conserved neuroendocrine networks of the …

Autonomic nervous system functioning assessed during the still-face paradigm: A meta-analysis and systematic review of methods, approach and findings

K Jones-Mason, A Alkon, M Coccia, NR Bush - Developmental review, 2018 - Elsevier
Animal and human research suggests that the development of the autonomic nervous
system (ANS) is particularly sensitive to early parenting experiences. The Still-Face …